Example sentences of "this [noun sg] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In support of this submission he relied on the recent decision of the House of Lords in Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte T. C. Coombs & Co. [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 283 , 302F where the House of Lords held , in the words of Lord Lowry who gave the leading judgment in which the other Lords of Appeal concurred , that |
| 2 | The loss of this figure he valued at £5,000 , allowing for contingencies . |
| 3 | Anyway , what was this obsession he had with her and Adam ? |
| 4 | In this surmise he proved to be correct , so Lucy hurried to her room , where she changed her clothes and attended to her make-up . |
| 5 | In all this work he functions as a kindly nurse who has no other business than to care for the well-being of her charge . |
| 6 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 7 | This proposal he supports by citing many particular examples of experiences of individuals with coincidences , synchronicity of various happenings , time slip , deja-vu , precognition , omens , divination , and so on . |
| 8 | In this capacity he produced at least one paper on study skills which is most notable for its adherence to the conventions of academe . |
| 9 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 10 | During this period he remained in regular touch with his Russian controller , giving him details of all the work he handled . |
| 11 | This post he held till |
| 12 | ( At this point he laughed as if at the absurdly self-evident nature of such a statement. ) ( 5 ) He indicated , very obliquely and with evident reluctance because of the company in which we were talking , that they could also discuss the activities of the Cuban revolution in other countries . |
| 13 | At this point he wrote in his journal , |
| 14 | At this point he departed from the script that Ginny , on the basis of previous visits , had laid down for him . |
| 15 | To complement this transformation he tinkered with the reform of society and institutions . |
| 16 | This knowledge he kept to himself , for to others he was simply Old Tuan , his age , like his origins , undefined . |
| 17 | This adversity he turned to good advantage , for here was time to devote to his beloved natural history . |
| 18 | Under the care of this gentleman he remained near a week ; when , not finding that relief he hoped for , Dr Scott was requested to assist Dr Crawford , but with no better success , for notwithstanding the united efforts of these eminent physicians , the fevers and faintings encreased [ sic ] till they ended in delirium and death on the 21st , being seventeen days after the first attack ’ . |
| 19 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 20 | Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given . |
| 21 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 22 | But this morning he returned in full force , and his name is Legion . |
| 23 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 24 | But this morning he spoke to me . |
| 25 | One might point out that this morning he issued to the press a 20-page document which he still has not come to the House to answer for . |
| 26 | This month he talks about the methods behind drawing creatively without a model . |
| 27 | This month he talks about the methods behind drawing creatively without a model . |
| 28 | At the end of this month he travelled to Sweden on a tour organized by the British Council ; it lasted five weeks , and he gave a number of readings in Stockholm , Upsala , Lund and elsewhere . |
| 29 | This argument he knew of old was hopeless and he listened to his own voice with a kind of horror as a note of pleading crept into it . |
| 30 | This week he stars in a very different role , playing an inactive Russian spy in the BBC comedy drama , Sleepers . |